No More Excuses Diet Review

I have read a lot of diet books the past couple of years.  
 I have followed Maria's story rom the beginning,  she truly is a huge inspiration to me!  
  However Maria's book was a bit disappointing to me, it sounded pretty much the same as all of the other diet books I have read.   
 There is no doubt the info will change your life,she has everything you need to get started as I read deeper into the book.    
I found that the book was packed with too much information and then it became hard for me to read and almost boring.   
 I didn't even want to finish it and that is rare for me, but I fought my way through it. I still recommend it if you are  trying to change your life! I have yet to see the results....  ~Summer 

A Fifty-Year Silence Book Review

This is a moving story of family, memories and wartime, that I could not put down!

Miranda Richmond Mouillot pieces together the lives of her Grandparents from their escape from the Nazis, wartime marriage and then a sudden estrangement in the early 1950s.

This story begins as a family history investigation, but evolves into a semi-travelogue, a journey of a race against time and self-discovery.

I love the way she makes lyrical like sentences, that I will savor. Here’s a couple of examples. (my favorites)

“I saw an infinity of forgotten details dancing across history's dizzying expanse.”

“Here the past was everywhere, an entire continent sown with memories.”

Miranda's book moves at a sedate pace, but you become more and more involved with the characters and I was particularly moved by the touching poignant changes in her relationship with her grandfather as the story unfolds.

The final pages give an indication of the possible causes of her grandparents rift which are all the more tragic when you realise the burdens her grandfather was carrying.

This is not your average holocaust memoir, but one that does illustrate how people’s personalities are as a result of experiences of which we are unaware or cannot even imagine.

I know I will read this again most certainly! A Fifty Year Silence is definitely on my top 2015 to read list!

Got this book form bloggingforbooks.org. ~Summer 🌠

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